Controls. What controls do you have over the accuracy and completeness of the numbers your company is reporting? See Sarbanes-Oxley for details. But this accounting compliance law came into being on the backs of a bunch of really bad bean counting, wherein huge public corporations committed fraud, and its management (and a bunch of their auditors) were sent to work on their putting short games (wealthy, white man jail).
Controls involve things like gathering data on transactions from two different sources. Like, yes, the bank wires all foot...but do the inventory draw downs also foot, and do the numbers all match...exactly? If so, then great; if not, then you have work to do to figure out what went wrong, either in the reporting of the actual numbers or the mismatches that...missed.
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Finance a la shmoop what is insider trading and the securities fraud
Enforcement Act of 1988? all right well the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
aka the 34 Act made it formally illegal to use inside information in trading
stocks amazingly that used to not be illegal or at least not explicitly so [People gambling]
and it wasn't enforced investing was well a clubby white man's insiders gig
and the boys took care of the boys well since people could make a lot of
money with insider information and thought they wouldn't get caught like [Boy peeing at a urinal]
well who's gonna know that I overheard the CEO of big company talking about a
merger in a Denny's washroom you know some folks pretty much ignored
the law well the 1988 law was basically Congress saying you guys were really [Congressman discussing the 1988 law]
serious about this so this new legislation added some hefty penalties
if you get caught as an inside trader people still trade on insider
information though and they still get caught and they go to jail and they lose [Jail door closes on man]
everything they have so he's got to realize some of us were just born to be
bad...
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